Mailfence’s OpenPGP keystore gives full control over key management

Mailfence secure and private email service comes with an easy to use integrated keystore that supports wide range of functionalities for managing OpenPGP keys. In this blogpost we highlight those OpenPGP keystore functionalities along with use-cases. Whether you use Mailfence’s own end-to-end encryption and/or digital signature feature or not, you can use Mailfence as a userfriendly web-based keystore. Why? Because Mailfence is completely inter-operable and give users full control over their OpenPGP keys!

Revoke your keypair

You can also revoke it without publishing the revocation certificate on public key servers.

Manage multiple keypairs

Import/generate multiple keypairs and use them simultaneously for encryption and digital signing.

You can even have multiple keypairs associated with the same email ID.

Direct connection with public key servers

Publish your public key on public PGP public key servers.

– Note: this is a ‘one-way process’. It includes publishing your Mailfence account, email address, first and last name or any other associated UID. Be careful, since it cannot be reversed. You will NOT be able to unpublish your public key from public key servers, nor modify your personal data.

– Publish your public key updates (expiration date, revocation, …).

– Import other OpenPGP public keys directly from public key servers and check for updates. You can also download them to your device.

Send your public key with digitally signed email

Send your public key via email attachment and digitally sign this email. This will allow your recipients to validate that you are indeed the claimed owner of your keypair.

Verify the authenticity of public keys

– Verify the public key fingerprint (taken via side-channels such as phone, meeting in person, …) with existing public keys in your keystore.

An OpenPGP keystore that gives you real freedom

Finally, you can use all those OpenPGP keystore features without actually using Mailfence’s own OpenPGP based E2EE and Digital Signature features. Use Mailfence as a user-friendly web-based OpenPGP keystore. Simply create an account and import your existing OpenPGP keypair or generate one using our keystore. We give absolute freedom to our users in managing OpenPGP keys. Also we do not restrict our users in our own digital island i.e. inter-operability and full reversibility (you can export your encrypted keypair and data anytime).

Thanks to Mailfence, you do not have to deal anymore with techy command-line tools or commands to manage OpenPGP keys. Gone are the buggy platform dependent GUI’s and stand-alone add-ons/plugins. Mailfence took on the challenge to offer key management in an easy to use web interface. We believe that ‘Privacy is a right, not a feature’ – secure and private email should be in reach of everyone!